AutoCAD 2009 Drawing Tool Buttons

Submitted by rkmcswain on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 18:30

New to 2009 is the default icon mode for the drawing tool buttons. You know what these are, the SNAP GRID ORTHO POLAR OSNAP, etc. buttons down in the status bar. They take up less room as icons, but you will need to figure out what each one does.

Out of the box, they look like this:

 

cad image

If you right click on any button, you will get this menu:

cad image

Uncheck the Use Icons item to restore the previous TEXT buttons, like this:

cad image

Polar Tracking, Object Snap, and Object Tracking include a context menu to quickly change settings without having to open a dialog.

New to this bunch of tools is the QP, or Quick Properties button. Heidi Hewett has put together a nice article on Quick Properties.

 

All content is copyright © CAD PANACEA 2005-2011 unless otherwise noted.
All content of CAD PANACEA is solely my own personal thoughts and opinions and do not those of any other entity or person.
All comments posted to this blog are the sole responsibility of the person making the comment.

 

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on this site. Google's use of their cookies enables it to serve ads to users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet. You may opt out of the use of these cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

free hit counters

Powered by Drupal, an open source content management system